Is it possible to 'precompile' a module in one luaState and quickly move it over to another? (keywords multiple interpreters, precompile)

["Bronner, Gregory" <gregory.bronner@...>]

I have a near-realtime server application that 

- receives a request
- creates a lua state
- loads a module using 'require'
- runs a function in that module.

I've found that the loading of the module takes about .5 seconds,  and
everything else that I'm doing takes .1 seconds.
This is despite setting package.path to one directory on a local disk,
running luac on all of the lua files, etc.

Since it is loading the same module multiple times, is there some way to
'precompile' it once, and export that precompiled version from one state
to another?

Is there some other way to improve the startup time of an interpreter?

The module isn't very large -- 1700 LOC total.
This is all using lua 5.1.3

Thanks,

Gregory R. Bronner
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